This quarter’s The Present Group project includes a piece I wrote about the current work of Maggie Leininger, a textile artist in Illinois.
“A white plastic box inscribed with a colorful legend, anonymously medical or scientific in origin, opens to reveal a woven textile, folded upon itself, black and white threads that merge into a shifting pattern of gray rectangles. Unrolled and displayed vertically, the swatch immediately brings to mind the reductive shapes and optical experimentation of Modernist abstraction…”
Read Nature As A Text…
